Re: Global nautilus scripts directory

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 01:05, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> I am a long time user of Nautilus but a new member of this mailing list.
> I have a lot of experience with OpenBSD and GNU/Linux programming and
> a bit with programming using various GNOME tools.
> 
> I am a big fan of Nautilus's script interface and I believe
> Nautilus needs a global scripts directory.  Currently, Nautilus
> will search ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts for scripts.  Something like
> /usr/share/nautilus/scripts should also be an option.  Scripts can do a
> lot of great things and a system administrator should be able to share
> new capabilities with all of the users on a system.  See GNOME bugzilla
> bug #119972.
> 
> Obviously, this would be a pretty simple addition.  I would like to hear
> if others think this is a good idea.

Its not an entierly bad idea. Of course, it means you can't remove the
system wide scripts from your menu without adding a lot of UI
complexity. That might not matter much though...

In general, we need to sit down and figure out the role of nautilus
scripts in the new world of nautilus plugins.

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